Matt Goldman (Co-Founder) attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics followed by a Masters Degree in Business Administration/Marketing.  Upon graduation from Clark, Matt was invited to join Omni Resources, a start-up software services company. He remained there seven years, producing educational and business software packages for clients that included CBS, Simon & Schuster, Grolier, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Bantam Books and Prodigy. While at Omni, Matt formed a partnership with longtime friends Chris Wink and Phil Stanton. The three created Blue Man Group, which opened Off-Broadway at the Astor Place Theatre in 1991 and continues to play there today. Throughout their long association, Matt, Chris and Phil have been fascinated by the interconnections between learning, creativity and community and how, combined with new teaching techniques, the educational experience can be enhanced. It is this interest that led them to start Blue School.

Renee Rolleri (Co-Founder) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons School of Design in 1992, a master's in Art Therapy from Pratt University in 2001, and is currently enrolled at New York University in the Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Culture and Education Program with a special focus on child development and art therapy.  Since completing her graduate degree in art therapy, Renee has worked with the Joan Fenichel Therapeutic Nursery School, the NYU Child Study Center, the Jewish Board for Family Services and the Partnership for After School Education both as a clinician and as an art therapist. Inspired by the joy of working with children and families and becoming a parent herself, Renee co-founded Blue School with her husband Matt Goldman and partners Jen and Chris Wink in an effort to bring the unique qualities that Blue Man Group has to offer children and families into an educational environment.

Chris Wink (Co-Founder) is one of the co-founders of Blue Man Group and currently serves as the Chief Creative Officer for Blue Man Productions. He is also a co-founder of Blue School. Wink originally joined forces with Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton to find a creative outlet for their shared interest in percussion, technology, art and comedy. These experiments led to the various Blue Man Group productions that have now appeared in venues all over the world. Wink’s work with Blue Man Group and Blue School has led him to explore techniques for enhancing the creative process and he has lectured on this subject before numerous organizations such as Harvard University, McKinsey and Co and the NeuroLeadership Institute.

Jen Graffam Wink (Board Vice Chairman; Co-Founder) is an artist and graphic designer.  Originally from coastal Maine, Jen moved to New York City to attend Barnard College where she majored in Modern Art History with a concentration in Visual Arts. After working in a directorial role with Blue Man Group and as a designer at the Village Voice, Jen went on to create Utility Design, a New York City graphic design studio. In subsequent years, she received an Ace Award, an SPD editorial design award and has had her work published in numerous design anthologies and periodicals. After scaling back professionally to become a mother, it was her search for a worthy, resonant educational path for her children that brought her lifelong pursuit of creative expression and collaboration back to the fore: in 2006, Jen co-founded the Blue Man Creativity Center (Blue School) with dear friends and partners Renee, Matt, Jennifer, Phil and husband Chris.

Jennifer Lamberts Stanton (Co-founder) believes that a more innovative approach to education is needed for a child’s development, and Blue School fills that need. As Blue School has evolved into a chartered academic institution, Jennifer joins her colleagues with the wildly popular Blue Man Group to create this New York-based, exciting educational environment.   With a deep concern for educational models to evolve in the 21st Century, Jennifer and the other co-founders were inspired by what they had learned through their experience with Blue Man Group – innovation, invention, and emotional intelligence. From this entertainment phenomenon, the co-founders of Blue School used the signature trademarks of exploration and discovery, multimedia theatrics and music in this new approach to educating young children.      

Philip Stanton (Co-Founder) Educated in public schools, and at Evangel College of Arts and Sciences in Springfield, Missouri, Philip received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983 with a double major in Religious Studies and Theatre Arts. It was at Evangel College that Philip discovered the joys of theatrical performance and the power of the arts to ignite the imagination and celebrate the human experience. Though Stanton immediately felt at home in New York and knew he had followed the right path, it was not until he met Chris Wink on his first assignment as a waiter for the catering firm Glorious Food, and soon thereafter Wink’s long-time friend Matt Goldman that Philip found the endeavor that would incorporate the interests and influences he’d had throughout his life. The three began work on Blue Man Group—a celebration of the human spirit through music, science, art, and theatre which has allowed them the freedom to express themselves in a variety of medium, with few limitations. Having been given such generous opportunities in life to learn and explore, Philip is excited to help ignite curiosity and creativity in the context of community to new generations through Blue School.